Quotes About Fixing

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value.

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

In the short term, we prioritize fixing problems over making moments, and that choice usually feels like a smart trade-off. But over time, it backfires.

After that, somehow, I began fixing things in my life. Dr Berger says being close to death will do that, but I'm not sure catalysts of change can be so easily identified.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

We have spent our time in government fixing the economy.

when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are the times that we connect with bodhichitta. Tapping

Have it your own way," she said, "but I always thought detectives waited until they had every little detail fixed in—" "And then wonder why the suspect's had time to get to the farthest country that has no extradition treaty.

Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It's the end. If the watch doesn't work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us.

Derek turned out to be spectacularly good at fixing cars, and he cured the Casson one almost immediately with the simple but highly effective addition of gasoline.

But I was going to see a psychiatrist. I was going to tell him. I just never got around to it, and then I just kept thinking I could fix it myself.

I'll have to get Malcolm to put some WD40 on

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix.

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him, because broken machines can be fixed.

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303

People who like to fix other people become "catastrophizers. Fixing becomes an unconscious way of preventing a "what if" from happening.

Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.

If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!

Thought denies that it is participative." Thought stops tracking reality and "just goes, like a program." And thought establishes its own standard of reference for fixing problems, problems which it contributed to creating in the first place.

He fixed things—clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies.

Any time you try to fix something before you understand how it works, you will only succeed by accident,

I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.